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11 September 2009

The purpose of listing these topics from the World Jewish Studies conference is to inspire readers as to diverse Jewish topics, to raise awareness of their own personal histories, and to show what is being discussed in various venues.

Readers may be inspired to research a topic that may connect to their own ancestry.

Sephardic Musical Traditions in Transition:Susana Weich-Shahak (S) Esrtuctura Poetica y Nucleo Tematico en el Romancero Sefardi Marion Maeder (E) The Role of the Radio in Relocating and Reshaping Judeo-Spanish Song in IsraelJudith R. Cohen (E) Ladinokomunita on the Road: An Ethnomusicologist’s Fieldwork Dream Come TrueRivka Havassy (H) Between the Dentist and the Pot-Mender (el Estañador): The Ladino Song as a Crossroads

Sephardic Jews and Visual Culture:Jelena Erdeljan (E) Sephardic Funerary Monuments from Niš: A Comparative Analysis of Form and IconographyNenad Makuljević (E)Sephardim and the Visual Culture of the Ottoman BalkansIvan Stevović (E) Jewish Architecture on the Territory of Present-Day Serbia: The Age of RevivalismMirjam Rajner (E) Between Local and Universal: Sephardic Artists in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust

Acculturation and Modernization among the Sephardim:Gila Hadar (S) Reina Cohen: una erudita judia de SalonikiJulia R. Lieberman (E) Adolescence and the Period of Apprenticeship among the Western Sephardim, 16th-17th CenturiesDevin E. Naar (E) The Exiled Sons of Salonika: Articulating “Sephardi” Identity and Homeland in Early 20th-Century New YorkYaron Ben Naeh (H) Ottoman Jews: Jews in the Sphere of Ladino

Sephardic Folklore:Eliezer Papo (E) Inter-Genre Contacts: The Proverb in the Judeo-Spanish Parodies on the Passover HaggadahTamar Alexander (E) Marching on Love Notes: The Personal Narrative of a Salonikan Woman who Survived the ShoahMichal Held (E) “The People Who Almost Forgot”: Ladino Forums on the Internet as an Imagined Community and a New Folkloristic TerritoryNina Pinto-Abecasis (H) Nicknames as a Unique Folklore Genre: The Case of Tetuan’s Haketia-Speaking Jewish CommunityVered Madar (H) Lamentations of Jewish Women from Yemen: Between Constructing and De-Constructing Collective Identity and Memory

Judeo-ArabicModern Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic Dialects:Joseph Chetrit (H) Free-Speaking and Formulaic-Speaking in the Judaeo-Arabic Text of Family Complaints Presented to the Rabbinical Court of Mogador (Morocco)Geoffrey Khan (E) Some Cases of Syntactic Diversity in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic DialectsIbrahim Bassal (H) Substrata of Aramaic Dialects in Colloquial Arabic in Palestine (Eretz Yisrael)

Mati Meyer (E) From Zion to Constantinople: The Ups and Downs of a Biblical ImageSarit Shalev-Eyni (E) The Feast of the Righteous in the Ambrosian Bible: Old Tradition, New ContextDalia-Ruth Halperin (E) The Theosophical-Kabbalah of the Nahmanides School and the Six Days of Creation in the Sarajevo HaggadahSara Offenberg (E) An Inverted Hunt Scene: Motifs of Jewish-Christian Polemic in the Illumination of the Liturgical Poem “El Mitnase”

Jewish Motifs from the Early Renaissance to the 18th Century:Suzy Sitbon (E) The Circle and its Metamorphosis in the Illumination of Some Spanish and Portuguese Medieval Massoretic Bibles of the 13th-15th CenturiesIlona Steimann (E) Hebrew Manuscripts from the Collection of Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)

Sephardic Jews and Visual Culture:Jelena Erdeljan (E) Sephardic Funerary Monuments from Niš: A Comparative Analysis of Form and IconographyNenad Makuljević (E) Sephardim and the Visual Culture of the Ottoman BalkansIvan Stevović (E) Jewish Architecture on the Territory of Present-Day Serbia: The Age of RevivalismMirjam Rajner (E) Between Local and Universal: Sephardic Artists in Sarajevo on the Eve of the HolocaustIrit Miller (E) Artist, Patron, and the Public Space: S. J. Solomon, S. Montagu and English History Painting

Music:James Loeffler (E) In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music? Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of ZionismNoah Gerber (E) The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the YemenitesJudah M. Cohen (E) A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical DevelopmentSharon Bernstein (E) The Cantillation of the Pentateuch According to the Italian Tradition of TurinDon Harran (E) The Levi Dynasty: Three Generations of Jewish Musicians in 16th-Century Mantua

Sephardic Musical Traditions in Transition:Susana Weich-Shahak (S) Esrtuctura Poetica y Nucleo Tematico en el Romancero Sefardi Marion Maeder (E) The Role of the Radio in Relocating and Reshaping Judeo-Spanish Song in IsraelJudith R. Cohen (E) Ladinokomunita on the Road: An Ethnomusicologist’s Fieldwork Dream Come TrueRivka Havassa (H) Between the Dentist and the Pot-Mender (el Estañador): The Ladino Song as a Crossroads

Liturgical Music Memory of Spanish and Portuguese Jews:Daniel Halfon (E) The Portuguese Hazzan TodayEssica Marks (H) Musical Characteristics of the Spanish Portuguese Liturgical MusicYosef Goldenberg (H) The Complex of Identities in Balkan Influences on Israeli Music

Jewish Women’s Identity in Times of National StruggleMargalit Shilo (H) Building the Nation and Constructing the New Identity of the Hebrew Woman during the Mandate PeriodAnat Granit-Hacohen (H) Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces in the Second World War: A Case Study of Nationality and GenderLilach Rosenberg-Friedman (H) Women’s Leadership in the Ha‘apala: Ada Sireni as a Case StudyEfrat Seckbach (H) The Gendered Identity of a 1948-Generation Woman according to Memoirs

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Schelly Talalay Dardashti has tracked her family history through Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Spain, Iran and elsewhere. A journalist, her articles on genealogy have been widely published. In addition to genealogy blogging (since 2006), she speaks at Jewish and general genealogy conferences, co-founded GenClass.com. Past president of the five-branched JFRA Israel, a Jewish genealogical association, she is a member of several professional organizations.

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